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Lelia, by Andre Maurois. A fine biography of the restless woman who called herself George Sand (TIME, Sept...
...Andre Maurois. A fine biography of the restless woman who called herself George Sand (TIME, Sept...
...gain an understanding of the history of Western civilization, the 'doing' involved must include a great deal of reading, talking, listening, looking at pictures, and just plain thinking. Perhaps he can learn a little by building a mud replica of a medieval castle on a sand table, but it is very doubtful if the time is as profitably spent as it would be in reading a good history book...
...carried on a sort of comic-opera blockade around the oasis of Buraimi. a cluster of 8,000 Arabs in mud-walled villages not far from the Persian Gulf. Last week the blockade abruptly lost its comic flavor. There was shooting in the desert and blood on the sand...
Fired by the belief that oil may lie under Buraimi's sand, strong-willed...